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Table of Contents:

• Araminta
• Owasco Lake
• Dorchester : birth
• Childhood
• At Polish Mills : a shower of fire
• The weight : at the Bucktown Crossroads
• Sold and carried away : the slaveholder's choice
• Harriet
• Marriage
• Over the line
• Family
• Rescues, promises
• Moses
• Becoming Moses
• Escapes, rescues : dreams, metaphor
• Last rescue
• The General
• Beaufort, South Carolina
• The proclamation, the raid
• Raining blood

• Araminta Ross Davis, better known as Harriet Tubman
• Auburn, last days
• March 13, 1913.

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Author/Creator:

Lowry, Beverly

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Harriet Tubman: imagining a life [by Lowry, B.]

Subjects:

Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913

Enslaved persons — United States — Biography

African American women — Biography

Underground Railroad

Antislavery movements — United States — History — 19th century

1800-1899

African American women

Antislavery movements

Slaves

United States

Genres:

History

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-404) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 418 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

E444.T82 L68 2007

ISBNs:

9780385502917
0385502915

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2006024778

OCLC Numbers:

70830995